Schizophrenia

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Schizophrenia

• Lecture of 2-14-07

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Symptoms

• Psychosis
• Lack of touch with reality
• Delusions
• Erroneous beliefs
• Hallucinations
• False sensory perceptions
• Too much dopamine or not enough glutamate

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Paranoid Schizophrenia

• Delusions of grandeur
• Believe they are special with special powers
• Believe that they are persecuted
• Defensive against imagined enemies

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Disorganized Schizophrenia

• Incoherent speech (word salad!)
• Hallucinations
• Inappropriate behavior for the situation (laugh
  at funerals, act like a little child)
• Thought patterns dont make sense

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Catatonic Schizophrenia

• Waxy/wooden behavior or hyperactive
• Immobile or frenzied
• Like to play statue

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Undifferentiated or Simple Schizophrenia

• Disturbances of thought that do not fall into
  other categories
• Mild form of schizophrenia
• Normal under all other measures.
  

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Alan Alda's Mother had Schizophrenia From Never
Have Your Dog Stuffed And Other Things I've
Learned "My mother didn't try to stab my
father until I was six," Just as profound was his
mother's losing battle with mental illness Alda
spent much of his adult life attempting to
reconcile his resentment of her outbursts and
unmanageable behavior coupled with her unbridled
enthusiasm for life and encouragement.
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                                                                                                                                                      Rumours of Fleetwood Mac Peter Green and Fleetwood Mac tribute band on stage in
                                                                                                                                                      Rumours of Fleetwood Mac Peter Green and Fleetwood Mac tribute band on stage in
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Syd Barrett, a founding member of the band "Pink
Floyd" and one of the most legendary rock stars
to develop a mental illness - most likely
schizophrenia (triggered, it is said, by
significant drug use as well as the stress and
pressure of his career), died from complications
related to diabetes. He had been living in a
cottage in Cambridge, England. He was 60 years
old.
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James Beck Gordon (Jim Gordon, on the right
Jackson Browne on the left) - James Beck Gordon
had been, quite simply, one of the greatest
drummers of his time. In the Sixties and
Seventies he had played with John Lennon, George
Harrison, Eric Clapton, the Everly Brothers, the
Beach Boys, Judy Collins, Joe Cocker, Frank
Zappa, Duane Allman, Carly Simon, Jackson Browne
and Joan Baez. But the music came to and end as
he developed schizophrenia.
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Mary Todd Lincoln
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Other disorders

• Lecture of 2-15

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Anxiety disorders-Types

• Phobias
• Post-traumatic stress disorders
• Obsessive-compulsive disorder

Symptoms

• Panic attacks
• Pain and tightness of muscles in chest or neck
• Feeling light headed or faint
• Profuse sweating, clammy hands

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Kim Basinger suffers from anxiety disorder
Anxiety Disorder(s) Panic disorder with
agoraphobia. For a time, Kim Basinger's fears
left her homebound. "I stayed in my house and
literally cried every day. I didn't know what it
was. I didn't know how to define it," Basinger
states in Panic, an HBO American Undercover
documentary. Basinger describes herself as a shy
child but experienced her first panic attack in
her mid-twenties, when her career was taking off.
The panic became bad once again during the media
attention prior to her Oscar win.
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Earl Campbell
Anxiety Disorder(s) Panic disorder. After
retiring from the NFL and while working for the
University of Texas, Earl Campbell had his first
panic attack when waiting at a stoplight while
driving home one day, according to his Web site.
He did not know what it was and did not tell
anyone. That night, another attack hit him while
sleeping. He was rushed to the hospital but
nothing was found wrong. After hiding in his
bedroom for a month, Campbell reached out for
help.
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Phobias

• Intense, irrational fear to a stimulus

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Obsessive-Compulsive disorder

• Thought AND behavior disorder
• Obsessions
• Persistent, intrusive, and unwanted thoughts.
• Note that obsessions are different than worries
• Common obsessions dirt, death, wanting to harm
  others
• Compulsions
• Repeated ritualistic behaviors the person does to
  get rid of stress.
• Examples washing, counting, touching, checking

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David Beckham (1975 - ) This talented soccer
player ("footballer") from the UK has recently
admitted that he struggles with his OCD  ""I've
got this obsessive compulsive disorder where I
have to have everything in a straight line or
everything has to be in pairs. I'll put my Pepsi
cans in the fridge and if there's one too many
then I'll put it in another cupboard somewhere.
I'll go into a hotel room and before I can relax,
I have to move all the leaflets and all the books
and put them in a drawer. Everything has to be
perfect." (Source - The Independent Online, April
2, 2006).
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Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

• Victims of a disaster, violent crime, or war
  re-experience the event in nightmares,
  flashbacks, or reduced involvement in their
  former activities,

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Nov. 10, 2004 U.S. Marine in Iraq. He's quieter
now -- easier to anger. He turns to fight at the
sound of a backfire, can't look at fireworks
without thinking of fire raining down on a city.
He has trouble sleeping, and when he does, his
fingers twitch on invisible triggers. The
diagnosis post-traumatic stress disorder. "I
don't see a whole lot," he said. "I see a day I
won't care to remember, but that I'll never
forget."
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How do the approaches treat anxiety disorders?

• Biological
• General anxiety is treated with benzodiazepenes
  like valium or xanax.
• Obsessive-compulsive disorder is treated with
  antidepressants
• Learning
• Systematic desensitization to give relaxation to
  a fear stimulus
• Cognitive
• Re-think or confront the thoughts that are
  causing pain. Cognitive restructuring turn
  thoughts into structured plans or realistic
  behaviors.